Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Consolation President President trend c Hey, hey nailed there. It
Speaker 1: is it ak We realized too late. That's all we
Speaker 1: should have done for our for our Wednesday episode. That
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh boy, hey man, but you nailed it, ponious pilot,
Speaker 2: Wait to go.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack. That over there is mister Miles
Speaker 1: Gray is Thursday, November seventh. Yeah, the l takes are
Speaker 1: coming in fast and furious. Yeah, we got The National
Speaker 1: Review is saying that Biden should pardon Trump for some reason.
Speaker 2: Uh wait, what's the point of that, like spare yourself
Speaker 2: from his like his wrath once he's in office?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe is that what it is?
Speaker 2: Like he save your own ass? Just just pardon him now.
Speaker 1: I think it's just the general trend that we're seeing
Speaker 1: with the mainstream media where they're like Trump won, he
Speaker 1: was right about everything, right, Like that must mean every
Speaker 1: impulse we had about you know, social justice, any like
Speaker 1: progressive economic policy, we should be ashamed of that and
Speaker 1: like pretend like we actually like don't we were. We're
Speaker 1: sorry for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was I think more on Morning Joe. Maybe
Speaker 2: I think it was Joe Scarborough was trying to Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah it was. It was like Joe Scarborough saying it
Speaker 2: was trans yeah, and like helping and supporting trans people
Speaker 2: got Donald Trump elected. So as if to be like
Speaker 2: that was a misstep, get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2: The problem is that people don't aren't looking in an
Speaker 2: intersectional way enough, which is how people get lost in
Speaker 2: the cracks because people only look out for themselves anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a so there's other ones. So many takes are
Speaker 2: like America needs to come together now to what about
Speaker 2: Like that's kind of how this ship would work, is
Speaker 2: like with this kind of presidency looming is to be
Speaker 2: like let's just lay down, just lay.
Speaker 1: Down, now, show him your belly. You swear to god,
Speaker 1: he'll just tickle it. I saw a somebody be like
Speaker 1: Biden should do the right thing. There's so many people
Speaker 1: with advice for Biden right now, like that he's gonna
Speaker 1: suddenly start taking good at place.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, would you have to say, dude.
Speaker 1: So one of them is there's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: takes being like Biden needs to like do make tons
Speaker 1: of changes to protect the American presidency, to protect democracy,
Speaker 1: like just force through all these changes. It's like he
Speaker 1: didn't do that when he was a like I newly
Speaker 1: elected president. Why would he be able to do that?
Speaker 1: Now they're also saying, I've seen a take that he
Speaker 1: should step down and allow Kamala to be the first
Speaker 1: woman president by default.
Speaker 2: That's so fucking Patron's so for real. Yeah, and like
Speaker 2: I and I get that the as in terms of
Speaker 2: like a campaign, being able to run that campaign from
Speaker 2: the time Biden stepped down to election day was no
Speaker 2: normal feat. That was actually pretty extraordinary, given like just
Speaker 2: purely the coordination of it all. Obviously there were a
Speaker 2: lot of problems with messaging and policy and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But then to just be like, and you know what, here,
Speaker 2: have a lick of my ice cream cone. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: that's actually psych I like ice cream too much, Jack, Sorry, Jack,
Speaker 2: this is my ice cream.
Speaker 1: A nice tramac schera. It falls down the front of
Speaker 1: his shirt. A uh then he starts crying. Anyways. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, very very discouraging that the mainstream
Speaker 1: take away from this is going to be it's the
Speaker 1: left fault. But we kind of knew that even heading
Speaker 1: into the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not fully come out yet because there's also
Speaker 2: a lot of people like when you look at third
Speaker 2: party votes too, and like certain swing states, like even
Speaker 2: if you added the votes that were people voted third
Speaker 2: party or something, that wouldn't have been enough to beat Trump. Also, yeah,
Speaker 2: so I think I think, like the mainstream media is
Speaker 2: probably they're just they need a little more data before
Speaker 2: they really they really do a full throated finger pointing
Speaker 2: match as to what happened, rather than saying, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: just not delivering for working people isn't going to help.
Speaker 2: And trust me, I think and the people who voted
Speaker 2: for Trump, it's going to be a rude awakening when
Speaker 2: he also does not deliver for working people. But Jesus,
Speaker 2: Yeah anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if we still had like normal elections,
Speaker 1: it would continue to go back and forth like this forever.
Speaker 1: Just whoever was not running theopotito, Yeah exactly. Anyways, Hey,
Speaker 1: at least somebody had a good election night. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking of course about meditation apps. So Calm, the meditation
Speaker 1: app that is, like the one that's not Headspace. I
Speaker 1: feel like those are the two meditation apps decided to
Speaker 1: advertise during the election, like it was the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They advertised on CNN and ABC Comedy Central, and their
Speaker 1: ads were kind of ingenious, just thirty seconds of silence,
Speaker 1: which anytime there's an ad that is silent, I will
Speaker 1: stole it. What every thing and be like, what the
Speaker 1: fuck is that person doing?
Speaker 2: My idiot box went quiet?
Speaker 1: It must be broken. Everybody should dropped my kid? Did
Speaker 1: you run over the slap the side? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Fop of the side now.
Speaker 1: Anyways, this is the first time Calm has attempted to
Speaker 1: mine our national political trauma. They also sponsored the CNN
Speaker 1: key race alerts in twenty twenty, and more recently sent
Speaker 1: their users push alerts during the Trump Biden debate, which
Speaker 1: is I feel.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, relax, Like, on the one hand.
Speaker 1: Like this might be the best advertisement for meditation since
Speaker 1: David Lynch. Like not the ad itself, but the fact
Speaker 1: that they were clear minded enough to be like, man,
Speaker 1: a lot of this is going to be bad for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Yeah, their mind. This debate is
Speaker 1: going to break people's brains. And then ahead of the
Speaker 1: election they knew that. Again, unless part of me is like,
Speaker 1: are they using our heart rate? Mon? Like, you know
Speaker 1: all those apps like have access to so much of
Speaker 1: our data, like your health stuff is there, just like
Speaker 1: the CEO of their company sitting in a room like
Speaker 1: the Bad Guy and Watchmen with just like monitors of
Speaker 1: every American's health metrics and just being like, we've got
Speaker 1: things of spiking, just like some real black mirror shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, I mean that there are other
Speaker 2: ones too that I think the other ones they had
Speaker 2: like nature sounds and they are It's it is funny
Speaker 2: how disorienting it is because it's used to like the
Speaker 2: cacophony of like like and just like what the fuck
Speaker 2: that when you hear like birds chirping, You're like, am
Speaker 2: I okay?
Speaker 1: Did I did I just die? Did I just die?
Speaker 1: Why do I so happy? Am i? Uh? It apparently
Speaker 1: paid off big time. The calm app jumped more than
Speaker 1: one hundred spots in the app store. And we're always
Speaker 1: looking at the app store charts here see what apps
Speaker 1: are hot. But yeah, I don't know. I tend to
Speaker 1: think of my smartphone as my NonStop anxiety pipeline. So
Speaker 1: it's it's cool that they have locked down, though, Like
Speaker 1: what if it wasn't outside of things, what if you
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why. I like the you know, in the
Speaker 2: beginning of lockdowns. I just love that like three D
Speaker 2: audio nature headphone shit I would used to wear and
Speaker 2: just bliss out.
Speaker 1: Yeah what if? What if? Not here? Let us send
Speaker 1: you a push notification to remind.
Speaker 2: You, Hey, relax, okay, thanks.
Speaker 1: The other things that were happening on the idiot boxes
Speaker 1: of America on election night. First of all, far fewer
Speaker 1: people watching the election on TV this time around, a
Speaker 1: sharp drop, I think, just generally. Even though the mainstream
Speaker 1: media takes in the aftermath of the election are pretty infuriating,
Speaker 1: the overall way that this election went I think is
Speaker 1: the best indication we have yet that nobody is paying
Speaker 1: attention to the instream media takes, so don't we don't
Speaker 1: have to get too upset by them. But on various outlets,
Speaker 1: it was it just felt like a game show, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember it was so funny. I pissed off her
Speaker 2: majesty when we were watching because there was a shot
Speaker 2: on like MSNBC or they have this augmented reality thing
Speaker 2: where like it seemed like they were just they set
Speaker 2: up a stage outside like the back of the White House,
Speaker 2: and I was like, WHOA look at that camera shot
Speaker 2: went whoa, what was that camera shot? And so are
Speaker 2: you fucking what? And I was like yeah, wowie, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like they got me. It's it was very, very
Speaker 2: overly slick production for something when you're just waiting, like a.
Speaker 1: Sweeping crane shot type thing.
Speaker 2: It was like it just pushed away from Karnaki and
Speaker 2: it looked like there were steps down and then that
Speaker 2: was like onto like the west lawn of the White
Speaker 2: House or whatever they whatever they call that.
Speaker 1: Big fuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was, it was. It was weird.
Speaker 1: They had a Kornaki cam that followed and I'm quoting
Speaker 1: here map daddy, Steve Kornaki.
Speaker 2: I prefer daddy map.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm the make it to make it, to
Speaker 1: make it, to make it a map daddy. But uh
Speaker 1: cool criss cross reference.
Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, I'm years old. Yep.
Speaker 1: It followed him the entire time On YouTube, you could
Speaker 1: just tune in to watch him like freaking out quietly
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, like out off camera. They were just
Speaker 1: there was somebody just following him the entire time, like
Speaker 1: some sort of fucking psychological experiment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't it just again, no need for that,
Speaker 2: no need for that. But it becomes Yeah, it just
Speaker 2: becomes like an eyeball palooza election, right, It's so weird that.
Speaker 1: We keep electing a morally bankrupt reality show star when
Speaker 1: we treat our elections like a game show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, acid trip game shows.
Speaker 1: CNN released an app version of their quote iconic Magic Wall,
Speaker 1: which is that just the map like the that you
Speaker 1: can like hit Like, do they think they invented the
Speaker 1: touch screen?
Speaker 2: Look? Jack, It's Iconic Magic Wall, and we made it
Speaker 2: an app that way we could get users to agree
Speaker 2: to our weird privacy terms and conditions so we can
Speaker 2: just start siphoning dat off whatever. It's iconic, man, it's iconic.
Speaker 1: Wow. You two can pretend to be John King. Fuck yeah,
Speaker 1: play normalize the creeping threat of fascism from your own
Speaker 1: living room. Amazon Prime had an election night event that
Speaker 1: our writer JM went and sought out. I was not
Speaker 1: aware this was happening. It was hosted by Brian Williams,
Speaker 1: who we all know from his poetic soliloquy about the
Speaker 1: beauty of our weapons as like missiles were being launched
Speaker 1: under the Middle East and the entire set was just
Speaker 1: one big screen so that it could be shot in
Speaker 1: Brian Williams's like basement. I guess, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know what was.
Speaker 2: Going on a set based on how big the amount
Speaker 2: of movement, I think that was happening on that big set.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big old screen and it just like
Speaker 1: the background looked like a weird AI slop hodgepodge of
Speaker 1: like American iconography. Like on the left there was like
Speaker 1: the red like the Arizona Devil's Tower, I think is
Speaker 1: what that is, like the you know, Desert Mountain.
Speaker 2: Is that why they're Grand Canyon or just some Arizona shit.
Speaker 1: I think that's just some Arizona shit, right.
Speaker 2: Shout out to that Arizona shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, from sea to Shining Sea and everything. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was also like the his desk was in the
Speaker 1: middle of a road. It was really like half assed,
Speaker 1: like it looked like a college TV station production, because.
Speaker 2: So much shit on television, especially like news and like
Speaker 2: sports broadcasts are just big green screen walls, so like
Speaker 2: it can be anywhere and yeah, if you don't have
Speaker 2: that really sorted out, just like I don't know, what
Speaker 2: do we have for a backblade there? Yeah, just put
Speaker 2: them on that rural road.
Speaker 1: Which it did look like AI slot because like the road,
Speaker 1: like the I can't tell if the camera is like
Speaker 1: really low because there's all these American flags along the
Speaker 1: side of the highway. There's also a car approach in
Speaker 1: the background, so it looks like he's about to be
Speaker 1: squashed like a bug. But the small American flags look
Speaker 1: huge because of I guess the camera angle, or maybe.
Speaker 2: It is just AI slot or they just huge s flags.
Speaker 1: And then over in the UK, Channel four hosted a
Speaker 1: panel that included Brian Cox because he was in succession,
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson, their former Prime minister, and Stormy Daniels.
Speaker 2: Damn all right, that's all right, that's a decent spread.
Speaker 2: Channel here we go. Yeah cool, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, maybe there's a danger of treating
Speaker 1: elections like the super Bowl, but but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's too early to tell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, turning it into again it's like
Speaker 2: the horse race of it all and then really really
Speaker 2: having that whole aesthetic over it. It's like, is this serious?
Speaker 2: Like what does it mean when the number hits two seventy?
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: There's a new trend in people's jobs ending, and now
Speaker 1: it's time for the bosses to snap back.
Speaker 2: It's so wild that we went from but prior to this,
Speaker 2: your employees are fucking around, they're fucking rears, anteeism and
Speaker 2: quiet quitting, and now on a dime, Fast Company is like,
Speaker 2: silent firing is the new quiet quitting. It's like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck is that? And that's essentially what any person
Speaker 2: has probably experienced at a job, when they just make
Speaker 2: your workload so unbearable that you just choose to leave. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then they can automate the job. It sounds like
Speaker 2: kind of like where they're they're.
Speaker 1: That's what they're thinking, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: just make it untenable, then we don't you don't have
Speaker 1: to fire them.
Speaker 2: You just make their situation untenable, they leave, and now
Speaker 2: you can swap that in for some kind of large
Speaker 2: language model.
Speaker 1: So quiet quitting was when described by the employees who
Speaker 1: engage in it, just doing your job quietly, like you
Speaker 1: I know, like generally they were like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: when you stop showing up for work and like you
Speaker 1: just don't tell your boss. But like, really, what it
Speaker 1: seemed like it was just like not putting in one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten percent, just minimal effort. Yeah, minimal effort,
Speaker 1: just do what you got to do a base yet fired.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, I'm not going to fucking dress.
Speaker 2: Up for your them day. No, I got the job done.
Speaker 2: Can I go home?
Speaker 1: Their equivalent is like, well, two can play at that game.
Speaker 1: We will work you so cruelly that you will get
Speaker 1: like be physically unable to do the job, so that
Speaker 1: we don't have to pay you any sort of severance
Speaker 1: when we fired you. Yeah, because you quit. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay, that's your life that you want you all
Speaker 1: the Also, this is not a new invention. This is
Speaker 1: what bosses have been doing for a long time. But
Speaker 1: the idea that they're like putting it in the same
Speaker 1: category as quiet quitting is a very predictable.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, they're like like being able to say, like,
Speaker 2: hey man, you can do it morally. If there's quiet quitting,
Speaker 2: there's silent firing managerial class. Now go do your thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a story about Gladiator two. Gladiator two is
Speaker 1: a film that's coming sooner than I realized. It's only
Speaker 1: coming out in a couple weeks November twenty second. I
Speaker 1: was not here for the episode where you guys watched
Speaker 1: the trailer. Just watch the trailer.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Man excited that it feels like they've gone like maximal list.
Speaker 1: Oh you know with Maximus's story, they've gone maximal list.
Speaker 1: It looks bonkers, Like it looks like they were just like,
Speaker 1: let's just like to put wild idea.
Speaker 2: What if we flooded the coliseum and put sharks in
Speaker 2: it and then do naval battles? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Ye're trying to think of like the equivalent movie that
Speaker 1: like Rambo one, which was called first Blood, not Rambo one,
Speaker 1: but like it was this like gritty thing that was
Speaker 1: supposed to be like about PTSD, and I think he
Speaker 1: kills like one person, and then the second one is
Speaker 1: like a superhero movie where he's like this unkillable person
Speaker 1: who defeats the entire Vietnamese army that is still like
Speaker 1: at yeah, so it's like it's kind of he's.
Speaker 2: He's righting some wrongs.
Speaker 1: Jack, Yeah, can we get to win this time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Me? Do we get? It's like that combined with Gremlins two,
Speaker 1: Like Gremlins two where they just like introduce their like
Speaker 1: what fuck it, dude, Like the first Gremlins movie is
Speaker 1: like and then we'll have this one gremlin Stripe who's
Speaker 1: like a little different and the other ones and as wild.
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, this time we're gonna have like
Speaker 1: three Wu Tang clans worth of Gremlins that all have
Speaker 1: like unique personalities that will fuck your world up. You
Speaker 1: won't be able to keep track of them. But uh,
Speaker 1: each each shot will introduce a new type of Gremlin
Speaker 1: that that kind of feels like what we've gone just
Speaker 1: complete over the top maximalism. I The one thing is like,
Speaker 1: I for some reason, I heard Denzel was in it.
Speaker 1: I heard Pedro Pascal was in it, and I had
Speaker 1: just pre cast the movie as like Pedro Pascal is
Speaker 1: going to be in the Maximus Oh role. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Paul Muscal instead is in the Pedro Pescal role. H
Speaker 1: But people who've gone to early screening seem to be
Speaker 1: enjoying him. It just feels like one of those movies
Speaker 1: where they're like double the action, double the characters, right,
Speaker 1: that's not atars, Yeah, but I don't know when some
Speaker 1: of the character that they're introducing are sharks. Yes, please, yes, please,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 2: I just like that. Now in the Hollywood Reporter, there's
Speaker 2: a thing that said Gladiator Too is quote total Hollywood bullshit.
Speaker 2: Top historian snaps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about this. I don't like that.
Speaker 2: No shit. Also, like, where's this where's this energy for
Speaker 2: like every other fucking historical film, right, Like, and I
Speaker 2: get it that it's you were talking about fucking navy
Speaker 2: battleship battles and sharks in the water, Like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: get it. We're not here for the fuck. I didn't
Speaker 2: go there to be like, what do you mean? This
Speaker 2: isn't Ken Burns's Gladiator too, right?
Speaker 1: They I mean, so what they've done, they've taken a
Speaker 1: thing that blew my mind when I first learned about it.
Speaker 1: They held naval battles in the arena. They flood the
Speaker 1: arena and hold naval battles in it. And I always assumed, well,
Speaker 1: the first Gladiator didn't have that detail in it because
Speaker 1: it seems too over the top to be believed. Right,
Speaker 1: They were like, Okay, well, if we're gonna do that, like,
Speaker 1: we might as well throw some fucking killer sharks in
Speaker 1: the water. Why not?
Speaker 2: Fuck it? If there's water, we gotta well, obviously you
Speaker 2: got a heighten it. Like everything has to present some
Speaker 2: kind of like threat, like because if you're knocked off
Speaker 2: the boat, like you don't want to be not you
Speaker 2: fucking die, bro, the shark will fucking eat your what
Speaker 2: was it bite your whole shit? What was your whole Yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll bite your whole shit like Jack like it was
Speaker 2: Forehold and then Jack O'Brian prophecies.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I wonder though, too, if did they write this
Speaker 2: just because like just thinking about the Roman Empire is
Speaker 2: like such a meme thing that they're like, we got
Speaker 2: someone who's a historian on all things Roman Empire, and
Speaker 2: they say, hold onto your butts, bros. That it's not accurate.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I'm I'm excited to watch this movie,
Speaker 1: and it's not just because I'm trying to get that
Speaker 1: bucket too. Yeah, the bucket looks awesome everything right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the early reviews from humans not necessarily critics. I haven't
Speaker 1: talked to or read all the critical reviews, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people seem to be receiving it quite warmly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if your expectations are where they need to be,
Speaker 2: which is you're going to see just a fucking extravaganza
Speaker 2: box office you know, tent pole kind of film. They
Speaker 2: pulled out all the stops. Then, yeah, I'm not expecting
Speaker 2: to see like great story. I mean, Denzel doesn't even
Speaker 2: his character isn't even he's not even doing a character
Speaker 2: in his performance. No, with that, that's fine. I know
Speaker 2: what I'm getting into. Denzel's gonna be like, ahh, so
Speaker 2: you're a gladiator and it's like yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like just a classic Denzel Washington as
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's him at his best.
Speaker 1: Finally, we're going to bid a fond farewell to the
Speaker 1: voice of AOL's iconic You've Got Mail.
Speaker 2: You've Got Mail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy passed away at seventy four. Name before
Speaker 1: was Ellwood Edwards. Fucking great name, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Elo, Elwood Edwards, the wild shit. He only made
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars for that gig?
Speaker 1: Is that real?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fucking capitalism, So cool.
Speaker 2: You've Got Mail, Wild's done, good goodbye, and to you
Speaker 2: we bid you Elwood Edwards goodbye.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh man, the number of Morning Zoo shows that
Speaker 1: are making that joke, I feel like they'd be more respectful,
Speaker 1: to be honest, we're going through some shiit so yeah sorry, yeah.
Speaker 2: We're working some shit out in real time.
Speaker 1: Sorry, fuck at the morning zoo. Yeah, I do wonder like,
Speaker 1: is he the most heard voice of the past like
Speaker 1: forty years, Like what could have been? I guest Siri Aleta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be one of those at this point.
Speaker 2: But for people of a certain age, I think we
Speaker 2: all grew up with that, or even just the sound
Speaker 2: of like the chat when someone would like enter on
Speaker 2: an instemester door open. Yeah, yep, that shit too. Those
Speaker 2: are those are goaded sound effects from my mind.
Speaker 1: That door is actually working at porn now. You can
Speaker 1: see it in the background of a bunch of Yeah
Speaker 1: all right. Those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Thursday, November seventh. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.